Mid-February Site Visit

Site overview from the lower parking area.

Roof rafters for the kitchen ceiling.

Incredible glue: Bonds wet, frozen, and treated lumber.
Used between floor joists and subfloor.
Stays pliable; prevents creaking floors.

View from door on back veranda
into the moss garden.

Spring is just around the corner.

Mt. Baker glows in winter sun with a fresh coat of snow.
Seen from the ferry, looking across Point Roberts.

Roof Framing over the Back Steps

Roof framing over the NE corner at the top of the stairway.

Roof framing over the stairway.

Stairway and roof framing at the back of the house.

Concrete steps from the carport to the back of the house
integrated with the natural bedrock.

More on Bumpouts

The bumpouts are an important part of the design.

They add extra space but are not counted as part

of the floor area limitations for a cottage, as defined

by Islands Trust for North Pender Island.  

Working on the bedroom bumpouts.

A quick, on-site pencil sketch
with dimensions for framing the windows.

The original concept drawing from the 3D model.
Desk on the left.
Ship's bed with storage under and shelves
and cabinets at head within the bumpout.

Framing done.
Desk bumpout on the left, bed bumpout on the right

View into the forest from Judy's desk.

Desk bumpout from the outside.

Working on the living room window bench bumpout.

Window bench corner.

Concrete steps in the back.

As good as it gets.

Working on Bumpouts and Stairway

The bookshelf bumpout.

Fresh concrete on upper stair landing.

Barry working on forms for concrete steps.

Crawl space under the kitchen.

The back veranda.

Fresh ammunition for the nail gun.

Fresh ammunition for the nail gun.

Two tool belts.

Paul checking: Is it plumb?

Urs doing chainsaw maintenance

Judy's Site Visit

Judy sitting in the moss garden, near the Inukshuk.

Contemplating the emerging house.

Showing off the recently re-found,
65-year old pan.

Contemplating the view from the kitchen.

Construction of the Roof of the Veranda

View of front veranda.

View of front veranda.

Veranda wrapping around the building.

Front veranda, outside of kitchen, dining, and living room.

Veranda on north side of kitchen.

Veranda around the back.

Detail of beams and rafters.

Detail of post, beams, and hip rafter.

Detail of posts, beams, and rafters.

Urs checking out the loft.

A Lonesome Visitor from Space

We had a lonesome visitor in early January.
Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 made its way across
the southern sky. This comet was first discovered
by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy
in August, 2014. Its orbital period for once around
the sun was calculated at 11,500 years! It made its
closest approach to earth on January 7, 2015, passing
some 70 million km from earth. It is now thought to
come back only after another 8,000 years.

Farewell lonesome visitor!

January 7 was a cloudy night on Pender and it remained
hidden. However, I was lucky on January 13. The sky
was brilliantly clear and I was able to capture the above
image above the trees on our property.